Rex Appeal
Subtitle: The Amazing Story of Sue, the Dinosaur That Changed Science, the Law, and My Life
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Invisible Cities Press
Published: August 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9781931229074
Subjects: Dinosaurs & the prehistoric world; Earth Sciences; Science; Larson, Peter L; Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures; Tyrannosaurus rex; Nature; Paleontology; Nature/Ecology; Paleontologists; General; Biography; South Dakota; United States; 20th century; History
First sentence: Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.
Description: "When Peter Larson and his team at the Black Hills Institute discovered the world's largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton beneath a South Dakota butte in 1990, Larson knew it was the find of a lifetime. He had no way of foreseeing that "Sue," as they called the fossil, was about to plunge him down a rabbit hole into a topsy-turvy world of FBI agents, government prosecutors, powerful museums, Native American tribes, and competing paleontologists.

As Larson began the biggest battle of his life - to hold on to Sue and to keep himself out of prison - an amazing thing happened. He and his Black Mills team began finding more and more T. rex. Reinventing the science of paleontology and hitting paydirt again and again, Larson became a lightning rod for the controversies rocking paleontology and the envy of fellow bonehunters everywhere."--BOOK JACKET.